Jack Bauer joins us for this episode of Not Your Average Gratitude Podcast. And no, it's not that Jack Bauer.

Jack Bauer is a certified breathwork facilitator, meditation guide, and wellness coach based in New York City. After years working in high-performance corporate environments, Jack found breathwork as a powerful tool for managing stress, reconnecting to the body, and creating lasting personal transformation. He now guides individuals and groups through immersive breathwork experiences designed to support emotional well-being, mindfulness, resilience, and deeper self-awareness. Alongside his wellness work, Jack also works in tech sales and brings a grounded, relatable approach to conversations around mental health, performance, and modern life.

Jack educated us on what breath work is and how it helps reconnect with our bodies. 

Find Jacke at @jack_p_bauer on Instagram! 

Ben Goldman joins us for Episode 5 of Not Your Average Gratitude Podcast. Ben is a therapist in private practice specializing in working with men and men's issues. Ben focuses on sex, intimacy, relationship conflict, and breakups. Ben's work centers around the emotional and physiological complexities of relationships with great clarity and intention. He is also currently researching and writing a book that reframes breakups through the lens of attachment grief and explores the role of ritual in healing. 

Ben helps us define rituals vs. habits and allows me (Chris) to share a more personal story around my own ritual after a previous relationship. This was a great, deep, and insightful episode. I'm so excited to share it with you! 

Find Ben on Instagram @benthebreakuptherapist

On this episode, we invited Rachel East from UltraRay Luxury Spa to talk about pivoting careers during the pandemic, creating a space and self-care products for people with melanated skin, and toughing it out as a small business owner. 

UltraRay, located in Sunset Park in Brooklyn, NY, specializes in personalized skincare treatments that target hyperpigmentation and post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation (PIH), with a deep understanding of the unique needs of melanated skin. 

Rachel is a NYS-licensed esthetician with a passion for treating skin of color. Every service is curated to safely fade dark spots, smooth texture, and reveal long-lasting results. Rachel pivoted to esthetics from a fashion merchandising background during the pandemic. 

We met as fellow vendors at the NY Markets. We've watched each other grow, and I'm so excited to have her on.

Find Rachel and UltraRay at @ultraray_luxuryspa on Instagram. 

Keith Lissner joins us for episode 3

Keith is a classically trained fashion designer, self-taught digital artist, and lifelong art lover whose career spans nearly three decades at the highest levels of American fashion. 

After formative roles at Ralph Lauren and Perry Ellis, he spent nearly fourteen years as Executive Vice President of Design at Vera Wang before departing in early 2025 to pursue new frontiers, much of which can be seen on his Instagram @keithlissner

We explore where Keith's love of fashion started, how he's serving his community now through the content he makes, and how it's all aligned with his purpose. So much of what he has now, he credits to his sobriety. 

We also talk about the difference between dog walking in Bushwick and Manhattan, why The Great British Bakeoff is the best reality show, and share a few of our own ungrateful confessions. 

In this episode, Rupal Bhinda joins us to talk shop. Rupal is the founder and owner of Ebb & Flow NYC, an elevated and luxurious aromatherapy, home, and bath & body brand based in NYC. All of their items are developed here! 

We met in the trenches (the markets) and have become true friends and fans of each other's work. We talk about my current pistachio obsession, the process of making a luxuriously scented candle, moving with intention, trusting your own decisions, and starting before you're ready. 

Find Rupal and Ebb & Flow at @ebbandflownyc on IG and at ebbandflownyc.com. 

In our first installment of Not Your Average Gratitude Podcast, John Arthur Hill joins us to bead his first bracelet and share how he moves with intention through a career in entertainment. 

John talks about his journey with sobriety, tone checking with Chat GPT, and finding himself back in NYC at this point in his life.  

John Arthur Hill is the host of the John Hill show Tuesdays at 11 am eastern, live on SiriusXM channel 102, cohost of Andy Cohen live Monday-Thursday 10 am, cohost of Daddy Diaries podcast with Andy Cohen, with new episodes every Friday 

His Broadway credits include: Hairspray original Broadway cast, The Boy From Oz original Broadway cast/Hugh Jackman’s understudy

John is a TV producer: Project Runway, Watch What Happens Live, Top Chef, My Life On The D List, The A List

Ig: @johnarthurhill 

YouTube: Show Pony